Summer in Australia is from 12/1/ to 2/28/ or if it's an leap year 2/29/ every year and by this time of the year the magpies which i featured in my Spring blog have officially stopped protecting their nests and they don't swoop that much during summertime because summer is a time i feel comfortable walking under the trees to get to places and don't have to worry about my head getting pecked by swooping magpies and also by this time daylight savings still continues then we have sports like the Australian Tennis Open in Melbourne for 2 weeks and a series of International and Domestic Cricket Matches so for example there's Test matches which go for 5 days total but it can be won in shorter time every now and then and an example of a test cricket match is Australia vs New Zealand etc but it depends on who fly into Australia for the series at the time and lots of people go to the beach during summertime and also there's jelly fish which can sting you at the beach so be careful at the beach and also people go away for holidays around Australia during the Christmas School Holidays until near the end of January meaning Schools go back about then i hope this helps you to understand the Australian Summertime people from Bruce.